Abattoir worker's foot amputated after horrific late-night accident

A 59-year-old abattoir worker’s foot has been amputated after it got caught in a conveyor belt he was cleaning.

The man was airlifted to the Royal Brisbane Hospital in a serious but stable condition after the accident at Oakey, on the Darling Downs in southeast Queensland, just after midnight on Tuesday morning.

It was the third serious workplace incident in the state’s south-eastern corner in 24 hours.

The 59-year-old was taken to Royal Brisbane Hospital in a serious but stable condition. Source: AAP, file.

On Monday a man in his 30s had his ankle crushed when he reversed his three-tonne loader into a tree stump while clearing trees on a property at Bollier, near Gympie.